Omar Mohammed Business Journalist

Omar Mohammed is a journalist and covers East Africa for Quartz, a New York-based business and economic news site. He is based in Tanzania’s commercial capital, Dar es Salaam. As part of a team at the Atlantic Media Company, Omar also helped launch Quartz Africa in June 2015.

Prior to that, he was a 2014/2015 Hubert H. Humphrey Fulbright Fellow at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, where he studied financial models for digital business journalism. He has served as a Senior Producer for a BBC Swahili Service weekly radio news magazine show, ‘Haba na Haba’ (Little by Little) and once created and hosted a news review show @Mgahawa on East Africa Television. His writing has appeared in The Arizona Republic, Global Voices, The East African, to name a few. He attended the University of St. Andrews in Scotland where he majored in English Literature with a minor in Philosophy. He is from and lives in Dar es Salaam.